Jason Nidorf Mutchnick is an American

United States

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 television

Television

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 producer

Television producer

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. He has received an Emmy Award

Emmy Award

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, a People's Choice Award, and several Golden Globe Award

Golden Globe Award

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 nominations.

Mutchnick was born in Chicago

Chicago

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, Illinois

Illinois

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 and raised in Beverly Hills by a single Jewish mother. He got his start writing for game show

Game show

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s, Good Advice

Good Advice (TV series)

Good Advice is an American situation comedy series that aired for two seasons on CBS from 1993 to 1994. It was co-created and executive produced by Danny Jacobson and starred Shelley Long and Treat Williams.-Synopsis:...

and The Wonder Years

The Wonder Years

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. He and David Kohan

David Kohan

David Sanford Kohan is an American television producer. After writing for The Wonder Years and The Dennis Miller Show, Kohan co-created and produced Will & Grace, Good Morning, Miami, Twins and Four Kings with Max Mutchnick. Kohan has won an Emmy and a People's Choice Award. He has been nominated...

 created Will & Grace

Will & Grace

Will & Grace was an American television sitcom that was originally broadcast on NBC from September 21, 1998 to May 18, 2006 for a total of eight seasons. Will & Grace remains the most successful television series with gay principal characters...

. He also produced and wrote for Good Morning, Miami

Good Morning, Miami

Good Morning, Miami is a sitcom which ran from 2002 to 2004 on NBC. Created by David Kohan and Max Mutchnick, the show focused on the personal and professional life of Jake, the executive producer of the lowest-rated morning show in the country, based in Miami.Though unsuccessful and unacclaimed,...

, and produced Twins

Twins (TV series)

Twins is an American situation comedy series that first aired on The WB in the United States and on CTV in Canada in September 2005. The series is produced by KoMut Entertainment in association with Warner Bros. Television...

and Four Kings

Four Kings

Four Kings is a sitcom introduced as a part of NBC's winter 2006 programming but cancelled before the end of the season. It aired at 8:30pm on Thursdays. It starred Seth Green, Josh Cooke, Todd Grinnell and Shane McRae...

with Kohan. The title characters of Will & Grace

Will & Grace

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are based on Mutchnick and his best friend, Janet. Mutchnick, like Will Truman, is openly gay

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. He and Kohan have a production company, KoMut Entertainment, which is a combination of their two last names.

On June 7, 2006, Emerson College

Emerson College

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 announced the naming of the Max Mutchnick Campus Center after Mutchnick donated a major gift. The apartment of Will Truman

Will Truman

William Pierce "Will" Truman is a fictional character on the American sitcom Will & Grace, portrayed by Eric McCormack. He is a gay lawyer who lives in the Upper West Side of New York City with his best friend, Grace Adler.-Fictional character history:...

 and Grace Adler

Grace Adler

Grace Elizabeth Adler-Markus is a fictional character on the American sitcom Will & Grace, portrayed by Debra Messing. She is a Jewish interior designer , living in New York City with her gay best friend Will Truman...

currently resides in the Emerson College Library on display. The set was donated by Mutchnick.

Mutchnik married his partner, lawyer Erik Hyman, on October 25, 2008. The couple are fathers to twin girls, Evan and Rose, via a surrogate.

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